7600 Spotted.

[Cookie Monster]

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The Dutch Tweakers.net today is showing off some photo's of NVIDIA's up and coming 90nm GeForce7600. The photo's show two models, one actively cooled and the other passive. It's seems obvious that NVIDIA will present the new cards along with GeForce 7900 and thus all their specification at the CeBIT in Germany next month.

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[otispunkmeyer]

cheers for the heads up cookie man! Dual DVI out again.....nice touch, good to see more of this

 

[Cookie Monster]

No problem. It looks like a very small card.

 

[xtknight]

Well, sounds exciting for people looking for a mid-range card. I'll see if I can extrapolate anything from the memory chip (if I can see the model number on it).

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(That's Dutch not German.)

 

[Cookie Monster]

oops, Thanks xknight. Link fixed/edited to dutch*

 

[n7]

Argh...i hate how nVidia/ATi love to clutter the mid-range market with all these new cards...just they can confuse people into buying something that's usually not a good value

I wish they'd instead just lower the price on the second-newest gen higher end cards, but no...

 

[rbV5]

Passive cooling and small PCB to boot. That could be popular if it has decent performance as well.

 

[crazydingo]

Looks almost like a 6600GT, 128bit?

 

[Cookie Monster]

I think it will be 128bit like most mid range cards e.g X1600.

 

[xtknight]

The memory chip looks like it may be this:

SAMSUNG K4J52324QC-GC14

So in that case there's 512M bit chip: 1.429ns (700MHz)

It's really hard to tell if the last two numbers are 14 or 20 though.

 

[crazydingo]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
I think it will be 128bit like most mid range cards e.g X1600.

Well then I wonder how fast the mem clocks will be.

600Mhz - 19.2Gb/s
700Mhz - 22.6Gb/s

In comparison 6600GT has 16Gb/s memory bandwidth.

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: n7
Argh...i hate how nVidia/ATi love to clutter the mid-range market with all these new cards...just they can confuse people into buying something that's usually not a good value

I wish they'd instead just lower the price on the second-newest gen higher end cards, but no...

Nvidia already did that with their 6800 GS however the problem with doing this is that high end cards are more expensive to make, and selling them at mainstream price points doesn't net them as much profit as a new one design with the more cost oriented mainstream market in mind from the start.

a 128Bit PCB will be cheaper then the 256Bit one used on the 6800 GS.

 

[TraumaRN]

Hmmmm and I cant wait for someone to be like I SLIed' my 7600GT's and it pwnz0rs j00 a11!!!!

 

[imported_ST]

ooohh..finally a short PCB solution fromt the big dogs. Let's hope as the memory/core clocks increase ATI/NVidia starts utilizing higher count layer pcb's for better SI and to keep the length in check....

 

[aznrice54]

Originally posted by: n7
Argh...i hate how nVidia/ATi love to clutter the mid-range market with all these new cards...just they can confuse people into buying something that's usually not a good value

Yeah, I agree.

However this card turns out, 128 or 256 bit, I hope it will outperform the 6800 GS by a significant amount - nobody wants to see another X1600 scenario.

 

[Pete]

Only four mem chips. I guess 256MB 128-bit? It should be really interesting to see it compete with a X1600, to see who can squeeze the most out of that little bandwidth.

I'm not sure about outperforming a 6800GS with AA, though. Without, it's quite possible, assuming really high clocks. But with, bandwidth may trump all else, and the 6800GS should win, being 256-bit and 500MHz. Even if the 7600 packs 700MHz RAM, it's still just 128-bit, so a good bit short of the 6800GS' raw bandwidth.

Well, assuming it's just bandwidth that's holding the 6800GS back at high res with AA, not shader power or something else.

 

[DrZoidberg]

i doubt it will outperform a 6800GS as its still 8 pixel pipelines and still 128bit memory.
I think they increased clock and memory speeds due to 90nm shrink, ROPS and extra vertex shader.

Im guessing similar performance to 6800GS which is kinda disapointing unless nvidia make 7600gt really cheap.

 

[gxsaurav]

i have been waiting for 7600 series ever since 7800GTX came out, cos i always go for mid-range, enough power for 1024X768 gaming, & full on features

i hope it's a 12 pipeline design atleast, with 256-bit memory path, that will be quite fast at midrange of $150

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: gxsaurav
i have been waiting for 7600 series ever since 7800GTX came out, cos i always go for mid-range, enough power for 1024X768 gaming, & full on features

i hope it's a 12 pipeline design atleast, with 256-bit memory path, that will be quite fast at midrange of $150

Well the 6800NU was a 256-bit 256 MB card with 12 pipelines but look how it compared to the 6600GT (128-bit 128 MB with 8 pipelines)...it was nearly exactly the same performance because of the 6600GT's higher clock rates.

 

[A554SS1N]

I love the idea of passive cooling - that'll be a hit with me!!!!!!!!!

 

[A554SS1N]

Originally posted by: n7
Argh...i hate how nVidia/ATi love to clutter the mid-range market with all these new cards...just they can confuse people into buying something that's usually not a good value

Well, a mainstream card like 6600GT was very good value for money when first released and still is - if you work out the FPS per $/£ then mainstream cards are much better value for money than any higher end offering, as you get more FPS per $/£!!!!